oh so cute

so this photo may be a little wrong, but if you get past it...it's pretty cute and Tim was looking on the net last night! we are totally looking forward to having a place that is big enough to have a little puppy.

He loves, I love, We love

Just a couple of pictures from YPout on the weekend. We were at Faith Lutheran college and around 350 people came together to learn more about God and have some fun. lots of work, so relieved it's come to an end but satisfied too. thanks to everyone who was involved.

productive as

Over this Easter long weekend i have had the opportunity to have some alone time.
Tim has had 5 friends here visiting him, and they have been doing boy things. which has given me the opportunity to do a few things i have been meaning to do for quite some time!

i have...
1.gotten our wedding invitations printed, assembled and addressed...well most of them!
2.bought fabric for mini bags for our wedding
3.bought photo boxes to organise my jumbled heap of photos
4.ORGANISED THE PHOTOS!!!
5.filed old bank statements, bills etc
6.DUSTED my room...which has happened maybe one other time since i have lived in this apartment
7.cleaned out my boot, it was pretty much filled to the brim with empty demineralised water bottles, costumes, junk and plastic bags, as well as a bag full of stuff for the op shop.
8. enjoyed a few pots of tea
9. watched a couple of great movies (I am Sam and Stardust..while constructing invites), as well as many episodes of arrested development
10.had the opportunity to blog
11. spoken to almost sister and brother in law on the phone
12. cleared my desk
13. tidied my room

i feel accomplished but feel that i have inhaled enough dust for the time being!

what's wrong with this picture?

can you guess?

grrr

man that's annoying...when you set something up and then blogger reforms it and then it looks poxy..and akes me look like a dill pickle

craft-a-noon anyone!?

Lately I have been inspired. some particularly creatively ladies in my life, (Clarey, Sez, Jek, Anna )give me inspiration and get my creative juices flowing. they have been blessed with skills and talents to sew, knit use computer programs I DON"T!!! winter is on the way and that means i really get the urge to KNIT!!! I have been seeing pretty things to use for our wedding and just want to get behind the sewing machine and make something!


These photos are from a beautiful book i just bought called "meet me at mikes" the lady who put it together has a beautiful shop in Melbourne and is a crafty crafty lady! it's beautiful and i was very thankful to get some birthday money to spend on a special book! I am looking forward to some day being able to make some of the pretty things! Craft-a-noon anyone? :) xx

a wonderful 2 years

Last week Tim and I celebrated 2 years of going out. To celebrate we ate Thai from our favourite thai resturant...cashew and chicken...YUM...i could totally eat some of that right now...Tim is a sweety, he made me a flower arrangement! He wanted to do something creative for me. He wasn't happy with the end product but i thought it was a lovely gesture!

A night in

tonight is the first night in 8 nights that I'll be at home...
and the first week night in...38 nights...or the 19th Feb was that date
OK that's ridiculous....

i plan to veg and go to bed early...I tired!

Monkey Business

For my birthday i got a fun little key ring. here he is! when you look at him he's pretty cute but then he has a button on his head! and his eyes light up, but that isn't the part that made me nearly crap myself the first time i pressed that little button. he also makes a monkey noise! which is REALLY loud! I've been catching people off guard ever since! thanks Bec and Roelof! :)

Farewell Fringe...for another year!

SO the Fringe is finished! a time of year where Adelaide truly comes alive! it has been a wonderful few weeks seeing lots of different comedians and plays all in all we went overboard really! and after all of it frankly I'm rather tired and probably need to hold off on buying tickets for anything for a while, mostly because we booked our honeymoon today...but more about that later...

these are the shows we saw:
Charlie Pickering
Greg Fleet
Adelaide is heaps good comedy debate
Burlesque Bizarre
Dark side of the choir
Arj Barker
Judith Lucy
Wet spots
Gothic Punch and Judy
Storm in a tea cup (which was a youth circus)
Unit 46 ( a play)
a reading of Mark the gospel
A midsummer nights dream
and of course our weekend to see Sydney to see coldplay!
and to finish it all off Adam Hills on Saturday night! he is such quality and it was great to finish a fun month off with such a quality act! check me out on spicks and specks on abc Wednesday nights.

so now we are have to do things that don't cost anything because we have a wedding to plan for, today we booked our honeymoon to Tasmania! it is so exciting to have done it and to have paid...a portion of it! and it is SOOOO exciting to have a lovely holidays booked, it gives me a lot to look forward to. I mean i have lots of things to look forward to but sometimes it's hard to see because when you are feeling a little stressed about things it's nice to know there is a nice holiday coming up in less than 4 months!

to relax last night Tim and i watched a portion of my birthday present, Narnia the lion witch and wardrobe AS well as Prince Caspian! our very own Narnia marathon! wonderful! thanks to bec and roelof for that present!

birthdays are the BEST!!!!

so sunday was my 25th birthday!

and to celebrate Tim and i decided we would go and visit his brother and sister in law and the little pikelet (baby bump) in Sydney! it also happened to be the same time as coldplay was touring! so we went to their sunday show in sydney!

it was so great! we got to catch a train into the city and see the sydney opera house and the bridge! we even saw people climbing the bridge...they looked a little like ants! :)

that was saturday and then sunday we did some of my favourite things. Go to church, eat fish and chips, sit at the beach, go to JB hi fi and a really great stationary store called KiKi K! it was great i wanted to buy everything and organise my desk! and for pre dinner dessert we had birthday cake! ....OH and how could i forget...we went to the lindt cafe! AHHHHH it was wonderful! the waitress was thinking i was a little weird taking photos of EVERYTHING!!! BUT i didn't care i was having so much fun! and then of course the day finished with Coldplay and that was AMAZING! ahhh i was so happy we got to go...especially since we nearly left the tickets in adelaide! WHOOPS!!

but my sister came to the rescue and we got on the plane...with the tickets...just!

we got back monday night and enjoyed a night in the garden of unearthly delights with my mumma, dadeo, jek, bec and courty...as well as bubba tim! being 25 has been a lot of fun so far!

Wirraway

as part of my job at Concordia, i get to go on camps with the different year levels each year. the first is usually the year 7 camp and for the past 3 years it has been at wirraway homestead just out of strathabyn. it is ALWAYS a hoot! there is horse rising, archery, rock climbing, swimming, fly fox. IT"S an amazing campsite! and the people that run it are a fantastic bunch of people too. camps are a great way to meet students and to get to know them better, i have a lot of fun doing this and it's a chilled environment to get to know them and what they like.

so i have just completed my 4th camp at wirraway..O make that 5 (i went there when i was in year 6!!!)

and it was another corker, but i am glad that it is the weekend!

xx

getting stuff off your chest

Good day to you all.
I've been a bit overwhelmed lately. my life is busy and i am reminded of it constantly.
A few weeks ago I was at a retreat day and a co worker made a comment on how busy the people around him are, and that perhaps if the busy people realised this and took some time to focus on God and their relationship with him, that the world wouldn't stop turning, if they in fact stopped their busyness!
for the next 5 days or so it kept coming up, being busy and not taking time out to rest and relax. I've often had a problem resting and reflecting and basking in God's care. But it has been on my heart for the last few weeks or so and the past week has been a bit up and down.

But today it climaxed a bit and i spoke to another co worker and he was good about it. i got some things off my chest and it does feel better after you've had a cry and spoken to someone you trust in your workplace about these things. and i have learnt...and i think it is a life long lesson i will be learning that i do need to be quiet sometimes and sometimes i need to be alone and not hanging out with people, and sometimes i need to turn the TV off, the radio, the light and lay and spend some quality time with my heavenly father.

so if anyone is reading this and is feeling busy and overwhelmed spend some time with God, in his arms in the quiet.

there are some other exciting things that are happening! the fringe is in town and i have seen a couple of things so far, eaten corn in the garden of unearthly delights and seen acrobatic kids in a circus!

and things are coming along with our wedding! i haven't gotten a heap of things done I'm helping with a camp but my darling friends are helping me out with invites and bunting and fun things so i am VERY excited!
Tim and I have almost been going out for 2 years and the photo above was taken when we had only been going out for a few months!

2nd engagement party

so we are blessed. but sometimes the situation is hard!

we are blessed because Tim's family live in Brisbane we got to have an engagement party in Brisbane which is nice because i still have a lot of precious friends up there. so last night we celebrated!

there was so much food, wonderful food that Maureen, my soon to be mother in law made, she is a gem and can really cook! we always leave a few kilos heavier. so many yummy treats, BBQ and a chocolate fountain to boot! SO GOOD!!

there was pretty decorations and lovely pictures that Rebecca and Roelof spent time working on, and a lot of nice things were said and therefore I had a tear because i often cry when nice things are said!

the only thing now is we have to leave and go back to work and leave our wonderful family and friends. but while it lasted we had fun and loved seeing our friends old and new, and meeting each others friends we hadn't met before...

and now we look forward to July! our wedding! :) to all those who came to help us celebrate thank you we love you all a lot xx

how about this heat?

it's been stinking hot in adelaide and everyone is complaining and etsa keeps cutting the power, it's like we are in a third world country.

i haven't been doing much because it's hot but here is a photo from clare's wedding! alissa and me! as promised...i don'tknow if anyone even reads this any more...but oh well!

FOUND

the bags came back!
at 1.30am tuesday morning we got a buzz...adrian was startled awake and he went and signed for them...so i got a surprise in the morning when i came out into the lounge area...adrian had turned into a blue bag! :)

a very happy christmas to you! i was able to see santa in the park last night when i went for a picnic with some good friends Brad and Di and some of their adelaide friends! it was fun and thanks for showing me studio 60

xx

waiting

So i have had a wonderful weekend.
i travelled to Queensland to attend the wedding party of a friend of mine (will post photos soon) and it was wonderful. very happy lots of smiles, cakes, wine and fun. got to be in the place i did the final 3 years of high school and spend some time with old friends. evn visit the beach.

however because i am a little disorganised with looking after my self i didn't sort work and say ok i'll have this time off and just stay in brisbane a few extra days instead of coming home and then going back up to spend time with Tim. so i was coming home today so i can work tomorrow and finish something off for our up and coming road trip.

so i had a flight from Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Adelaide...it was the cheapest flight at that time of day,when i got to the airport who should we see but Adrian and he was on my flight...both of them, unfortunately we realised it to late and were unable to sit next to each other to chat....

ANYWAY the flight from Brisbane was a little late leaving which meant we were a little late arriving in Sydney and we had to go straight to the gate to board our plane straight away.

we thought things were fine...but when we were waiting at the luggage carousel Adrian heard his name over the loud speaker...so we went over to the info desk and his bag had been left in Sydney because there wasn't enough time to get our bags onto the next plane.... and that they hadn't arrived in Adelaide on our plane but that they would on the next one at 9pm.

so 2 and a half hours ago Adrian got a call to say his bag was here in Adelaide and that they would deliver it...the twist is...his house keys were in his bag and so he has been here for the last 4 hours waiting...but having a nice distraction of talking to Rebecca in Canada!...i think he might be using the spare mattress tonight!

so we wait and hope our bags will arrive...eventually!

love and marriage!

So on Friday a very good friend of mine got married to her beau! it's so exciting! she is the first of our group of friends from school to get hitched. Simon her HUSBAND now...is from the UK and so they went to Melbourne and got married! it is such an exciting time and a real achievement! Well done Clare and Simon for making this big step! i look forward to celebrating with you VERY soon! xx

coming to an end

So i am happy to report that school is done for 2008. it's been a good, busy, changing, frustrating and sometimes long year and i am glad to have finished last week for the year. don't get me wrong, the students at CC are wonderful but it does get emotionally draining saying goodbye to people.

it has been imminent. we have been celebrating with Tim's brother Luke and his wife. they are having a baby, Luke graduated and got ordained, his family (mum dad, sister and brother in law) have been and gone and now their house is packed up, along with some other friends that are going out into the world outside of Adelaide...
change can be really hard and i often struggle with people leaving my life...well not leaving for good but saying goodbye and moving far away...some people fight as a way of dealing, coping...or not coping with people leaving.

i guess it's a good leaving because God willing we will see them again in this life time.

I am tired though, all these things have made me tired...i should watch less felicity and go to bed earlier... x

random happy snaps

There have been lots of happy times lately!

i bought a digital camera, and have been taking some photos, below are some of the happy things that have gone on! xx

Do I have something in my teeth!?